Don Siegelman, Injustice and Karl Rove
01 March 2008 12:35 am by Taylor Marsh
The primary has taken all of the air out of the room, but I hope everyone will
stop, switch channels, if just for a few hours to consider what’s happening
to a Democrat that Karl Rove targeted. Dan Abrams of MSNBC has done a great
job this past week of highlighting the case. "60 Minutes" aired a
feature on it last week, but not everyone in Alabama, where Rove’s dirty deed
is alleged, got to see it. Harper’s has the story and the "60
Minutes" video:
CBS aired its long-awaited feature on the prosecution and imprisonment of
former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman this evening at 7:00. In a stunning
move of censorship, the transmission was blocked across the northern third
of Alabama by CBS affiliate WHNT, which is owned by interests of the Bass
Family.
There’s more on the story in this
Harper’s post.
It looks to me like Siegelman was targeted, railroaded, then unfairly sentenced,
though I’m no lawyer and won’t pretend to judge on things better left to them.
However, this case stinks, and it doesn’t take a law degree to know that one.
If you’ve ever read anything about Karl Rove, read about the Siegelman miscarriage
of justice, which will remind you of the worst of Rove’s dirty tricks. You’d swear something like this couldn’t happen in America. It can
and it did.
So, did
ex-Alabama governor get a raw deal? Read about it and see for yourself.
Siegelman’s daughter talked to Dan Abrams’ a couple of days ago and you can
find the video on his MSNBC
site.
